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When my family had settled in the United States, we flew our fifteen-year-old dog, Cabbie, to be with us. One night, not long after Cabbie had arrived, he managed to get out of a small gap in the fence. Our home backs onto mountains, so it was far from an ideal situation. In the dark we searched the streets and the trails leading up to the mountains, but our dog was nowhere to be found.
As my daughter and I were searching, negative feelings of anguish began to increase. I knew we had to stop searching and change the way we were feeling inside immediately. The
negative feelings were telling us that we were imagining the worst, and we had to change the way we were feeling quickly and imagine the best. At that point, every possible outcome
could still happen, and we had to choose the outcome of having Cabbie safely home with us, by imagining and feeling that he was home.
We returned home and we pretended our dog was with us. We put food in his bowl as though he were there. We imagined hearing the bell around Cabbie's neck as he walked down our hallway. We talked to him and called out his name, as though he were there. My daughter went to bed imagining that her best friend of fifteen years was sleeping next to her
bed as he always did.
Early the next morning, we discovered a notice on a tree at the foot of the mountains saying that someone had found a Ii ttle dog. It was Cabbie. Just as we had imagined, our dog
returned home safely to us. No matter what changing situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change ~ the situation into what you want!
